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Compton's Interactive World Atlas, version 1.0
README - September 10, 1996
1. Introduction
2. System Requirements
3. Installing and Uninstalling
4. Multimedia and Video Performance
5. Troubleshooting and Changes to the On-Line Help
6. How to get Technical Support
7. Copyright Information and Responsibilities
* * * * * *
Introduction
Thank you for purchasing Compton's Interactive World Atlas from
SoftKey International. By registering this product you are entitled to
technical support and a free copy of the SoftKey Catalog, so please take a
moment to send in your registration card. For your convenience, you
can also register by calling, toll free, 1-800-845-8692, 24 hours a day.
* * * * * *
System Requirements
Please be sure that your system meets the following standards:
IBM PC or compatible, 486/33Mhz or higher CPU
Microsoft Windows(R) 95, 3.1, or Windows NT Workstation 4.0
8MB of RAM
10MB of available hard disk space (for a Typical Installation)
VGA graphics - 256 color support
Double speed CD-ROM
MPC compliant 16-bit sound card
Microsoft compatible mouse or pointing device
* * * * * *
Installing and Uninstalling
Compton's Interactive World Atlas allows you three installation
options--Typical, Compact, and Custom. The Typical Installation copies
program files, six TrueType font files, and help files to the destination
directory/folder on your hard drive. To increase program performance, the
Custom Install option allows you to install the data files (92Mb for map
data and 7Mb for profile data) onto your hard drive.
Using DriveSpace: If you are installing the product into a folder
located on a hard drive which has been compressed using Microsoft DriveSpace,
DoubleSpace, or any other disk compression program, you may require MORE
disk space than the amount stated in the Setup program for a Typical install.
This is a limitation of disk compression programs whereby files that have
already been compressed cannot be compressed again to fit on a compressed
drive. The files containing the profile data (7.1 Mb) and map data (92Mb) are
already compressed. Therefore, if you are performing a Typical install or a
Custom install where you are copying the Map Data or Profile Data files,
please make sure that the Windows Explorer, or the DOS Prompt's DIR command
reports more free disk space if the destination drive has been compressed
with a disk compression program--at least 200Mb if both sets of data files
are being installed to the hard drive.
To uninstall the product using Windows 95, open the Windows 95
Control Panel and launch the "Add/Remove Programs" application. Select
"Compton's World Atlas" and click the Remove button. This will
remove all installed program and data files, the destination directory, the
World Atlas program group, and all related entries on the Windows 95 Start
Menu. It will not remove any shortcuts you may have created if you have
moved them out of the program group--you must delete those manually (right-
mouse-button click on the icon and select Delete from the pop-up menu). Your
CD-ROM does not need to be in your CD-ROM drive to uninstall the product.
If you have other Compton's Home Library titles installed on your computer,
they will not be affected.
To uninstall the product using Windows 3.1, double-click the
"Uninstall World Atlas 1.0" icon in the Compton's Home Library Program Group.
This will remove all Atlas program and data files from your hard drive and
Atlas-related icons from the Compton's Home Library Program Group.
In either Windows 3.1 or Windows 95, the directory structure will
remain intact if you have created or saved any bookmarks. The uninstall
program may report that "Some elements could not be removed." In many cases,
the reference is to a file named BOOKMARK.BIN in the \USER directory in
the main World Atlas directory tree. That file and the tree above it can be
deleted using the Explorer, File Manager, or the DOS DELTREE command.
* * * * * *
Multimedia and Video Performance
*A note on video performance: if the videos play with jerky motion
or if the sound is not in sync with the video, try this Windows 95 system tip
to increase your computer's video performance:
1) Open the Windows 95 Control Panel and double-click on the "System"
application.
2) Click the "Performance" tab.
3) Click the "File System" button.
4) Click the "CD-ROM" tab.
5) Increase the "Supplemental Cache Size" setting to either the
highest or next-to-highest setting.
6) Make sure the "Optimize Access Pattern For" setting is correctly
set to match the speed of your CD-ROM drive. In initial versions
of Windows 95, this setting comes defaulted to single-speed CD-ROM
drives, which may not be correct in many environments.
7) Close all open windows and restart your computer.
* * * * * *
Troubleshooting and Changes to the On-Line Help
*The Find Content dialog can be used to locate and display all of the
multimedia content (music, phrases, pictures, and videos) within the
Atlas application. However, some of the pictures in the Find Content dialog
are Satellite Images located in the Mother Earth section. If you double-
click on a Satellite Image picture from the Find dialog, the Satellite Image
Viewer will open, but the specified picture will not be displayed. Within
the Viewer, click the middle button on the button strip to start "Auto-Play"
mode and view all the pictures in a slide-show format. To close the
Satellite Image viewer, click the "X" box in the upper right of the viewer,
or press <Escape>.
* Using the Location and Distance Tool: The numbers in the 'Cursor
Position', 'Point A', and 'Point B' fields in the Location dialog represent
the latitude and longitude coordinates of the place under the cursor and the
distance tool. The first value represents degrees of longitude measured from
the Prime Meridien, where a positive number is degrees East and a negative
number is degrees West. The second number shows the degrees north of the
Equator or, if the number is negative, degrees south of the Equator. For
example, the latitude and longitude value for Boston, Massachusetts, USA is
-71,42. This location represent 71 degrees West and 42 degrees North.
Occasionally, the distance calculation, if compared against the scale
of each map, may appear to give a discrepant reading. This is usually due to
map projection issues (see the "How Maps Are Made" video in the Mother Earth
section) and varies from map to map, with the greatest discrepancy against
the scale occurring in the polar regions. However, the distance tool uses
latitude and longitude coordinates to calculate distance and is much more
accurate than the "scale and ruler" method.
Also on occasion, you may find the grab boxes (the highlighted squares
on either side) of the Distance Line tool are directly over map hotspots. If
this happens, you will need to move the Line by clicking and dragging it until
the grab boxes are off hotspot areas.
*Using the Go To dialog: due to memory limitations and the amount of
places in the Atlas (over 14,000), some Windows 3.1 users may not see all the
places in the Atlas in the Go To dialog. To maximize the possible number of
places listed, make sure the Cities box is not selected if you are not looking
for a city.
* * * * * *
How to Get Technical Support
To speak with a technical specialist on SoftKey and Compton's reference
products, call 1-800-852-8163, or use the Online feature of the product to
access the Compton's New Media Forum on America Online for more information.
* * * * * *
Copyright Responsibilities
This software program contains copyrighted materials which are licensed
to you for your personal use, subject to the terms of the SoftKey License
Agreement included with this software package and the statement below entitled
"Use of Maps, Animations, Photographs, Images, Videos, Text, Music and Sounds".
It is illegal to duplicate or distribute any part of this software program,
except as stated in the SoftKey License Agreement and as detailed below.
Use of Maps, Animations, Photographs, Images, Videos, Text, Music and Sounds
Subject to the restrictions described below, you may use the Maps,
Animations, Photographs, Images, Videos, Text, Music and/or Sounds contained in
this software product (the "Content") for your personal, non-commercial use
in connection with private presentations, private reports, academic
non-published reports, and other similar non-public or non-commercial uses. You
may also publicly display or demonstrate the software program in unaltered form
on your computer.
1. You may NOT include the Content in any item that is offered for sale.
2. You may NOT modify or alter the Content in any way.
3. You may NOT incorporate the Content into any materials which are publicly
distributed or displayed, including, any such advertisements, public presentations
(including public multimedia presentations), greeting cards, invitations,
announcements, calendars, catalogs, or other similar uses.
4. You may NOT resell, sublicense or distribute the Program or any of the
Content in any electronic form, including, on any on-line service, the Internet,
or any other telecommunications medium which currently exists or shall exist in
the future. For example, you may NOT include Content in another software product
for resale, or distribute the Content on any on-line bulletin board service or
place the Content on a Web page.
5. You may NOT use photos or images of people or identifiable entities in
any manner which suggests the endorsement or association of any product or
service or in connection with any pornographic or immoral materials.
6. You must credit the software program as follows:
(c) 1996 SoftKey International Inc. and its licensors.